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A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL READ IT FIRST IN THE ROANOKE NEWS — BRINGS A'OIJ COVERAGE OF HALIFAX COUNTY THE ROANOKE NEWS ESTABLISHED IN 1866 — THE OLDEST WEEKLY NEWSPA PER IN NORTH CAROLINA 77/;: BEST NEWS AND ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN THIS ENTIRE SECTION Sixty-Ninth ^ ear Weldon. North Carolina Published Every Thursday Thursday. January 2. 1936. Snow Belays Opening Weldon and H a 1 i f a x Schools ’Til Jan. 13 Bad Roads I’rovent Bus Travel: Rural Schools Open Jan. 6 Weldon and Halifax schools which were scheduled to reopen after the holidays Jan. G, will not open until .Tan. 13. In making tills announcement the Superintendent stated this policy was thought best as the roads were in no con dition for safe driving. The schools, both white and col ored, will remain closed until Monday. Jan. 13. with the ex ception of a few county schools. These county schools will open earlier as they must get in as many days as possible before farming time. They will open Jan. (?th. Fourteen Cases In Reeordcr’s Court Fourteen cases were on docket at the regular meeting of Recor der's Court Tuesday, December 31. This was an increase over last week. Jce Hill, charged with drunk and disorderly and resisting ar rest, plead not guilty. He was found guilty and sentenced to 5 months in jail to be assigned to do work under the direction of S. H. and P. W. C. James Hutson, charged with reckless driving and improper li cense. plead not guilty, but was found guilty of reckless driving. Prayer for judgment c ntinued upon payment of costs. William G. Staton, charged with liquor and assault with dead ly weapon, plead not guilty. He was found not guilty of assault, guilty as to liquor. Prayer for judgment continued for 1 year on condition defendant remains of good behavior and pays the costs. Anthony Crowell. Jimmie Lee Crowell, and William Ambers, charged with larceny, plead not guilty and were found not guilty. Ed Wood, charged with reckless driving, plead guilty. Johnnie Batts and Ottis Fenner, charged with assault with deadly weapon, plead not guilty as to Fenner, guilty as to Batts. They were found guilty as to each, prayer for judgment as to Fen ner continued upon payment of one half costs. Prayer for judg ment as to Batts continued upon payment of one half costs and $ 16.00 fine. Johnnie Batts, charged with reckless driving, plead not guilty and was found not guilty. Junious Turner, charged with possession of concealed weapon, plead not guilty and was found not guilty. Collins Bryant, charged with li quor, plead not guilty and was found not guilty. Jack Dickens, charged with as sault with deadly weapon, plead guilty. He was sentenced to 6 months in jail, to be assigned to do work under the direction of S. H. and P. W. C. Sentence sus pended on condition defendant does not live with L. L. Dickens and does not violate any criminal statute for 2 years, and pays costs. Clarence Thomas, charged with driving whili drunk, plead guilty of reckless, driving. Prayer for judgment suspended on payment of costs. Lawrence Jackson, charged with breaking and entering, was trans ferred to the Superior Court. L. M. Butts, charged with dis posing of landlord'.1 pr perty and violation of motor vehicle law; upon motion of counsel for private prosecution the above case is hereby nol prossed with leave. Junious Turner, charged with larceny, plead not guilty and was found not guilty. CONFEDERATE WIDOWS TO RECEIVE MONEY A Leonidas Hux, clerk of court of Halifax county advises us that his office has on file pension war rants for Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Jenkins and Mrs. Lucy Jane Mas sey. They are both Confederate Veteran's widows. Anyone know ing the whereabouts of these la dies will do them a favor to tell them of these pension warrants. COT A LICENSE? All automobile drivers who applied for a S* lie driver's license more than a week .ago. and who had not received their card, are asked to write a post eard io the Division of High way Safety, Department of Revenue, give their names and addresses and ask what’s wrong. The request came from Direc tor Arthur Fulk who has more than GO.000 applications unan swered because the applicants forgot to give their ipill ad dresses, or wrote illegibly, or used such light ink it couldn't be photographed, or moved from their residences without leaving forwarding addresses, or something. With these exceptions, the di vision has about caught up with its work. A total of 581,901 licenses had been mailed yester day and only a few more ap plications, less than a day's work, remained to be filled— except for the faulty ones. The drive on Hie motorists who failed to apply—the num ber estimated to be from 300, 000 to 400,000—will begin in January, Mr. Fulk said. Cars In Head-On Wreck Near Here Among the numerous wrecks occurring during the unu.su uly ' bad weather '.his section is ex periencing was a head-on crash on the Weldon Halifax road Tues day. A Plymouth, driven by David Wolovitz of Philadelphia, Pa . and a Chevrolet driven by Edmond E. Sutton of Canton, N. J. skidded ; in front of each other near Cobb's Service Station. One of the oc cupants, a woman, received a bad cut on the chin, while all the oth ers were only shaken up. The cars were considerably damaged. HAS PERFECT RECORD Robert Oliver Bloomer, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Bloomer, worked hard last term at the University of Virginia and re ceived a nice Christmas gift. Dur ing the holidays he was notilied by the college officials that his average for the last term was 100. This is the best record ever made at that institution in p; r trology. He is majoring in that subject this year. LICENSE BUREAU DOES BIG BUSINESS The license bureau in its new location in the Building and Loan office is doing a “land-office” business this week. Motorists are rushing to comply with the law and purchase new license plates. Miss Nettie Cuthrcll, who has charge of the local branch, says the office will be open from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. each day. NEW YOlilv . . . Howard C. Hopson utilities magnate, who personally faces a $1,521,604 Federal income tax lien for deficien cies in 1929 to *33, and whoso com j panies face total liens of $53,400,000, the largest Federal liens ever filed. farcy Cited Into Court: Mo License Motorists operating vehicles without properly displaying new I license plates were being cited into court by Patrolmen and oth er officers of the law here yester day and today. About ten being arrested here and twenty in Roanoke Rapids. Some of those who were arrest ! ed had licenses bought but did 1 not have ithem on—will net be lined. They wire cited to court for the purpose of checking to see it they had put their license on as instructed by patrolmen. Masons Install Officers Tuesday The Roanoke Lodge No. 203 A. F. &. A. M. will install new of ficers Tuesday night, Jan. 7. in the hall of the lodge. The meeting will start at 7:30 p. nr. An interesting program has Ibeen planned and refreshments will be served. All members and visiting breth ern are cordially invited to at tend. The officers for the new year are: W. B. Josephson, worship ful master; J. O. Carter, senior warden; J. T. D. Rawlings,Junior warden; Henry Farber, treasurer; J. J. Willey, secretary. The follow ing oil1c. rs were appointed by the worshipful master: A. W. Oakes, | Jr., senior deacon; W. B. Joyner, junior deacon; Jack McGee, til er; W. T. Shaw, chaplin. DINNER PARTY James Rowell was host to a few of his friends on Sunday evening at a lovely party, the occasion be ing his eighteenth birthday. Christmas decorations were us.d throughout the house. In the dining room the table was covered with a handsome lace cloth and was centered with a mjnature Christmas tree and dainty Christmas place cards marked the places. Covers were laid for eight. A delicious three c urse dinner was served after which the birthday cake was cut. ‘fFlio.se present included Misses Elizabeth Glover and Mildred Burton of Roanoke Rapids, Miss Mabel Bean of Thomasville, Miss Helen Rowell, William Hawkins, Temple Chappell, Pete Clark and i the host. BAPTISTS TO CELEBRATE HOME COMING DAY SUNDAY, JAN. 5TH REV. FOUNTAIN ENDS NINTH YEAR WORK Next Sunday, the first Sunday in January is HOME COMING DAY WITH WELDON BAPTIST CHURCH. Next Sunday is the be ginning of the pastor's tenth year in Weldon, as pastor of the Wel don Baptist Church. The entire membership of the church, togeth er with all the friends of the church are urged to be present both at the morning and the eve ning hours of worship ,and also in Sunday School and B. T. U's. We want to make next Sunday count for all possible for the glory of God and for the coming of His Kingdom. The nine years that the pastor and his family have lived in Wel don have been years of content nunt and p ace. Wo have learned to love all the people of Weldon, and of course we have learned to love and to hold highly,in our af fection the membership of the Weldon Baptist Church. The member::; of the church which we have served through these years have been good to us, and we count ourselves happy that we have many friends who are mem bers of the other churches in our town. Next Sunday being Heme Com ing Day, and also the beginning of our tenth year of service together, we ask. and we hope that God’s House will be filled with worship ping people at both hours, and that we shall have a much larger number of people in Sun lay School than usual. Let us all (be sure and be on hand, and let us not forget to tell others about our Home Coming Day. Jackson Day Dinner At Halifax Jan. 8; To Hear F. I). IT Speech I Vnwcrals () i 1 luli f«!x. Ilcrlio. Northampton. To Mod At I lal i lav D' mocrats of the Second Con gressional District will meet :il three Key towns—Halifax, Wilson and Kir.-ton- -for the Jackson Day Dinners next Wednesday, Janu ary 8tli, according to ann umv inent made today iby Carroll Wil son. of Roanoke Rapids, district chairman. The dinners are ar ranged as a part of the nation wide celebration by Young Dem ocrats and proceeds will be turn ed over to th-c National D.m era tic organization. Halifax, Northampton, and Ber tie party workers will participate in the dinner at Halifax. The af fair will begin at 8 o'clock. Among the speaker.-■ will be Solicitor W. j H. S. Burgwyn of Northampton county, and State S nator J. r: All.'brook, ,r noa.i.ko Rapid*. Olh i' : ivokiTs will include local r. prcsentatives from Northamp ton, Warren and Bertie counties. Al !): b5. a radio talk by President Itnosciclt will be given. as a part of thi- national program. The dinner at Wilson will be arrange 1 f r Democrats of Wil son and Edgecombe counties: and the Kinston dinner will be parti cipated in by parly workers of Greene and Lenoir. Chairman Wilson urges all par ty precinct and counly workers, candidates for office and present officeholder.; to attend and parti cipate in the Jackson Day dinner, thereby aiding in the naticn-wide movement to provide funds for the impending campaign to return Democrats to power in precincts, counties, State and Nation. Lay Democrats, as well as officehol ders and chairmen, are invited to the gatherings which are open to all bona fide Dem. crats. Two Heavy Snows Usher In Winter; W h i t e Christmas No Serious Accidents Were Reported During the Holidays Ushering in Winter and only a week apart, two heavy snows fell in this secli n of the State, the first nn Sunday, December 22 and the second on Saturday and Sunday, Decemcer 28 and 29. The first | snow gave the territory its first i real “white Christmas” in around 48 years, according to records of the Weather Bureau. Snow began to fall steadily here around 12:30 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, December 22 and con tinued until about 9 o'clock that night. Over four inches had fall en when the snow ceased. Just a week after the lirst snow, the section again was bogged down in snow and sleet to a depth of between five and six inches, and was covered with a crusty coating of ice. Though the snow presented a menace to holiday travellers, no serious accidents or deaths result ing from cold or the condition f the streets and roads have been reported. However, reports of numerous accidents came from other sections. Several car own ers had their lenders bent when cars bumped into each other on slippery highways and streets. Railroad and bus lines, as well as private automobiles, were slow ed up. Although the bulk of the buy ing had been done previously, the first snow interfered somewhat with the Christmas buying of the public. Despite handicaps of cold and heavy flying snow, good progress was made by the state highway department in clearing the high ways cl snow. Even after the roads were scraped a heavy coal ing of ice made them slippery and dangerous to motorists. During the middle of the day last Monday, the sun came forth and tlie snow began to thaw. More sunshine on Tuesday melted it further. WILL ROGERS LAST PICTURE HERE The Rialto Theatre announces a change in schedule for this week-end. Will Rogers in “In Old Kentucky,” his last picture, will be here Friday and Saturday, January 3-4. With this showing the new thea tre continues its policy of showing the best pictures available. Fire Departments of Scot land Neek and Tarlmro Give Aid The entire town cf Rich Square was threatened by fire early Christmas morning when flames broke out in a wooden apartment .building, located in the business! section and spread to several ad joining buildings, consuming four buildings in all and damaging oth ers. The total estimated damage was between $30,000 and $35,000 it was estimated. Fire depart ment- from Scotland Nick and Tarboro were called and aided in preventing any greater damage, although due to the lack of water supply for tiie city their activi ties were confined in the main to assisting the hastily formed buck et brigade. The buildings des troyed included the Imperial Theatre building, Pacle Building, Mclson’.s Grocery, Postoffice. The Boone Motor Co., the Griffins Grocery and Traylor's. The fire originated on the se cond story of the Peele building, a frame structure, occupied by three apartments. The first floor was occupied'by the Futtrell’s Grocery, Elliott’s Beauty Shop and Peele’s Flower Shop. As the flames spread rapidly to adjoining buil dings they eventually crossed the street to destroy buildings on the east side of the street, and others were damaged by the excessive heat, windows toeing broken. Melted snow and ice in the streets was used by the bucket brigade and barrels of water were hauled from the Rich Square swimming pool, which is located in the eastern part of the town. The fire started around mid night Christmas eve, and burned until around 7 o’clock Christinas morning. Only a small percentage of the total loss was covered by insur ance. BABY CONTEST TO BE AT PENDLETON Pendleton, J;in. 1.—On Thurs day evening, December 19, Mrs. Ruth E. H. Jacobs sponsored the Christmas program at the Pen dleton High School which consist ed of two operettas, “Mr. Moon" and “The Little Rich Girl" by the elementary department and “The Kingdon of Love” by the high school department. The door receipts amounted to $8.10. The public is invited to attend the Baby Contest on Monday evening January 20. Miss E. M. Faulk is the sponsor. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Burwell Allen an nounce the 'birth of a son on Mon day, December 23, at Roanoke Rapids hospital. Mrs. Allen formerly was Miss Pauline Kitchen of Scotland Neck. "Outstanding” —t NEW YORK . . . Mins Virginia Hyde (above), of New York, lias : been named the ‘'most outstanding debutante of tbe years.” Rcttuty, personality and charm were the three judging points. Mrs. Henry Farber Died Here Today Mrs. MlIHc Farber, wife nf Henry Farber, died at her home her: this morning at 7 o’clock, following an illness of several months duration. Funeral services will .be held from the home at 11:30 tomorrow morning and the body will then be taken to Richmond where burial will take place at Moses Monti fiorc. don, one sister abroad, three Mrs. Farber has been a valued resident of Weldon for the past thirty-five years. She was a wo man of quiet dignity and fine character and will be greatly miss ed by a wide circle of friends. Surviving are her husband, H. Farber, one daughter, Mrs. Louise Sharove of Weldon and three sons, Dr. Herman Farber of Philadel phia, Pa., Ellis Farber of Scotland Neck and Merton Farber of Wel don, one snster, abroad, three brothers, Will Farber of Roanoke Rapids and two brothers who re side in foreign countries. Mrs. Farber also leaves a host of rela tives in Weldon and Roanoke Rapids to mourn their loss. PEANUT GROWERS GET MORE TIME Peanut growers who wish to take advantage of the government newest plan to maintain a price level have been given more time. The Southern Cotton Oil Co., plant here has been notified they can continue to take panuts until January 15. The State Dept, of Agriculture, who authorized the extension of time urges the farmers to take advantage of tins offer. The original plan in which only the time limit was changed is that the mill will crush peanuts paying growers 2 1-8 cents per pound, basis 65 percent meat content de livered at their plant. The govern ment will in turn pay the growers one cent per pound or $20 a ton. This is the place where growers who have peanuts that will test not less than 65 percent meat con tent can get a better profit than if the grower permits the oil mill to receive the diversion payment. The government will not pay the one ent diversion payment to growers who are not contracting signers. Merc* I m n I s A ssoci ation Sponsors Program To Entertain Farmers THANKS We wish In thank all llinse or ganizations ait:l individuals w ho look opportiinititcs during Christ m:n. You have made it possilde for many who would not have been happy In en.loy Christinas. We did (lie best we could to give a complete list of all ihose who were in need. Some may have been left cut. but we feel that we did !he best we could. Nearly ail of ihe opportunities were taken, includ ing the opportunities among col ored people, and we feel that you have been blessed in helping in a very praetieal way some needy family, and surely the ones who were helped were made h ip pier. The cooperation received by the chairman of the Investigating Committee in getting up the op portunities by tiie members of the committee, and the way in which the people of our commun ity accepted these opportunities is fine indeed, and the chairman of that committee together with the entire Board of the Associated Charities of Weldon wish to thank you for what you have done. RICHARD S. FOUNTAIN Chairman of the Investigating Committee. Everything Gone As Home Burns There i- nothing much worse than to- have everything burned up, believes a colored family near Weldon. Tuesday night a fire destroyed the home of Mac and Annie Berry, a hard working colored family liv ing about three miles from Wel don on the old Halifax road. Mac and Annie and their four children woke up just in time to escape with their lives. All of their cloth ing and other possessions were dc-' stroyed. Being very poor, anyway, these j colored people are in a destitute j condition now. Anyone desiring to give them any old clothes, food or help them in any way can call or send things to the NEWS office and they will be taken to these people. All federal and local relief is tied up at present and these people must depend on those in more fortunate circumstances. WINNERS MERCHANTS CHRISTMAS FRIZES The Weldon Merchants Asso ciation rewarded four places for their extra efforts in Christmas] decorating. D. W. Seifert was awarded an electrical appliance donated toy Virginia Electric & Power Co., for the best dressed home in Wel don. The Leader Store got a ham, donated by Swift & Co., for best decora'tcd store window. H. V. Bounds received first award, a ham from Armour & Cc., in South Weldon. Pompey Edwards, janitor at lo cal high school, got first prize among the colored and rece ived a ham from Wilson and Co. HEAVY SNOW FOILS ROBBERS; OFFICERS TRACK THIEVES HERE TWO HANDS BOYS IN HALIFAX JAIL About the only good the snow has done yet was to help local police capture two young thieves Sunday morning. During the night Saturday the C.untry Club between Weldon and Roanoke Rapids was broken into and S46 worth of pants, shoes, shirts, candy, milk and other ar ticles were stolen. Employees of the club called Weldon police. On investigating they found tracks leading from the place. The officers followed the trail to a home in South Wel don, where they arrested two Roanoke Rapids boys, Elavivs Clary and Chester Vaughan. While searching the house the officers found the stolen goods and occupants of the house said the boys had brought them there. Vaughan and Clary were given a preliminary hearing Sunday morning and b und over to Su perior Court. They are in the Halifax jail in default of a $300 bond each. Both boys have a previous police record according to local officers. ATTEND CONFERENCE IN MEMPHIS, TENN. Attending a conference in Mem phis, Tenn., with about seven thousand other young Methodist people is the good fortune of two young ladies cf Weldon. Miss Gerline Keeter, president of Weldon Methodist Epworth League and Miss Jaiut Rawlings, superintendent of Young Peoples work in this district are in the Tennessee city as delegates from this section. They left here Christmas day and are expected to return tomorrow. \Y rlilun to Show I li r* I'JiniHTS (rood Time January I .*> On January 15tli, at 11 o’clock tli, Weldon Production Credit As sociation will hold their Annual St ckholdcrs Meeting in the town of Weldon. This meeting is an annual event. Last January the Association had at its annual meeting approximately 500 peo ple. The Secretary of the Asso ciation, Lynwood J. Judkins, has stated that iic is expecting 600 or 700 farmers at the meeting to be held this year. It has been suggested by some of the members of the Merchants Association that these farmers e. ming to the town of Weldon be given a welcome. A committee was appointed at the last meeting of the Merchants Association to look into this matter and make some suggestions as to a form of entertainment. This committee, composed cf E. G. Garlick, J. A. Hornaday and W. B. Josophscn met with Mr. Judkins to discuss plans for such an entertainment, it was decided to prepare a big oyster roast for the farmers on that day. All Weldon will wel come the members of the Weldon Production Credit Association to our town. Plans arc going forward" to give these farmers a good time. Var ious forms of entertainments will be prepared for them and it will really be Farmers Day here Jan uary 15. All business houses and organ izations of the town are expected t cooperate with the merchants association in this big event. Meeting Is Held Here At the Annual meeting of FCX Patrons held in the Anderson Fe.ed & Grocery Store, local FCX distributor, on Thursday evening, December IS), the following local farmers were named to serve on the Advisory Board for the com ing year: Messrs, J. W. Bristowe, Pleasant Hill, N. C.; J. C. Cooke, iGarysIburg, N. C.; J. G. Long, Seaboard, N. C.; Sterling John ston, Roanoke Rapids, N. C.; W. T. Eure, Halifax, N. C. It will be the responsibility of this board to represent local agri : culture in the cooperative purch 1 asing of such farm supplies as 1 feeds, seeds, etc. as conducted be tween the state-wide Farmers Co operative Exchange and the An dersen Feed & Grocery Company rendering retail service at Wel don. In keeping with the FCX poli cy, all distributors handle its sup plies on margins that are public and in the interest of patrons. FCX feeds are manufactured by open-formulas that have been ap proved by agricultural college and experiment station experts. A tag on each bag gives the exact number of pounds of each ingre dient user per ton,. The wholesale Farmers Co operative Exchange, with head quarters at Raleigh, N. C., and managed by M. G. Mann, is own ed and operated by thousands of North Carolina farmers. It has retail cutlets at some one hun dred and seventy-five North Car olina shipping points. The or ganization is incorporated under the laws of the State. The pro gram i Hers farmer patrons whole sale and retail service in the pur chase, manufacture and distri bution of farm supplies at actual cost plus safe reserves which are used to provide capital and work ing facilities. Ginning Drops t A drop of 2,991 in the number of bales of cotton ginned in Hal ifax county prior to December 1 of this year under the number ginned before that date in 1934 is revealed ip the report of R. S. Clark of Littleton, special agent of tha federal census bu reau, released last week. The report shows that 20,861 bales had been ginned prior to December 1 this year as against 23,852 last year.
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